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'... Mummers come without warning and the characters they represent are sometimes non-human. Their plays don't make sense and they contain elements which are distinctly frightening. Described like that. the Mummers Play sounds as formal as a Japanese Noh Play.'
In the first of two programmes Harry Thompson looks at the Mummers Play and asks why something so apparently inept could survive for so long.

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Harry Thompson
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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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